Can we be sugar drink free by 2025?

September 24, 2015 at 3:28 PM

The health effects of sugary drinks and possible strategies to reduce their intake will be the focus of a public health experts' conference next month.

The one-day conference - Sugary Drink Free Aotearoa by 2025 - will be held at Manukau Institute of Technology on October 7, with particular reference to Maori and Pacific communities.

It will include a panel discussion led by Boyd Swinburn - a professor of population nutrition and global health at Auckland University, and the director of the World Health Organisation's collaborating centre for obesity prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne.